We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many.
It's the light of the oncoming train.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.
We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.
In the end, there is no end.
The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.
Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy. . . if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.